That's how I've come to treat my mother when she asks me how to copy and paste. Finally I took her to the local drugstore and made her copy a piece of paper. I brought her home and had her
paste it onto another piece of paper. I then had her describe the steps she had to take to me by writing them down. If she skipped something like "Put the money into the machine" or "select number
of copies" then I'd get confused and make her go back to the beginning. Afterwards I brought her over to the computer and said "There are no settings. There is nothing to remember. You drag the
mouse to highlight the text you want to copy. You press the right mouse button and choose "copy". You move to the new document and right-click and choose "paste" HOW is that more complex
than what you just did with the copier over at the drugstore? HOW is that more complex than tying your shoes?"
Heh, such treatment of my mother would have sooooo gotten me an a$$-whoopin
argh, i've always hated that damn saying
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Inanimate objects don't WANT anything.
Bah, damn people and their "neat-sounding" buzzwords.
Give it some time and not a word in the dictionary will mean anything.
I just wish they'd slow down time a bit, so that taking a shower doesnt take 2 hours and going to the bathroom doesn't take an hour...you hardly have any time to do anything, especially with the new expansions.
Has anyone ever done a study to see how many pro-choicers have active sex lives?
I'm kind of curious as to whether or not the majority of the people fighting for abortions are merely those who enjoy sex and don't want to lose their "get out of pregnancy free" card.
I have respect for human life. I have respect enough, as well, for it and its mysteries, to not presume I know the exact instant when a human life comes into being. A person in this world is one thing, a
clearly human being who clearly and unarguably deserves human rights and respect. Some glob of goo inside a woman's womb is neither clearly a human life, nor clearly deserving of human rights. It's
debatably a human life, and debatably deserving of human rights. As such, it's my choice to weigh in and say that it's not at all just to deny a clearly human woman her clearly human rights about her own
human body, to protect the debatable rights of a debatably human being/fetus/baby/bunch of cells/whatever you think it is. One is obviously, clearly, provably human. The other is only debatably so,
depending on your semantics, your opinions, your philosophies, your religions.
I'll still take the loss of a "clear human right" over "debatable murder", especially when the right being lost is frankly very very non-essential and in most cases the result of being a totally irresponsible nitwit who was simply too horny not to be stupid.
Allowing such "easy solutions" merely promotes such irresponsible behavior (or at least does nothing to curb it). Maybe people would learn to have a little more respect for the act of sex if they actually had to deal with the repurcussions. And no, I'm not a religious zealot, nor could I give a damn about sex out of wedlock. All I know is that from the point of conception (or at least after a day or two), there's a DAMN GOOD probability that the "small glob of goo" will become a human life, and that high probability alone is enough for me to wish it to remain so.
Honestly, is it so difficult for people to learn a little responsibility? Then again, why should they when they always have the "easy way out" to fall back on?
Yup, little kide love romping around a dark stormy mansion with a shotgun trying to blow a zombie's head off while they get bitten into, blood splattering, screaming and struggling until they fall onto the floor and a huge puddle of blood surrounds them.
That's such a stupid attempt at arguing, it sure as hell shouldn't be modded up. Nintendo releases like 80 or 90% cartoony or kid-targetted games, and maybe a handful of "violent" or "mature" games, and people try to use that handful of games to insist that the primary market of the Gamecube isn't kids.
Ummm, when I try to go to PerlBox.org, it redirects me to http://www.camelotnaturals.com/ which is some bath & body site. Now, I know the camel has always been a Perl mascot, but isn't this a step too far?
Suddenly your PC's screen clears and the image of a naked woman in a seductive pose appears. Oh no, more porno-hacks. Maybe you should have downloaded those latest security patches after all.
One light grenade fills a room...
Several dozen light grenades somehow expand to fill an entire sewer system.
Unless UV light gained some weird new gas-like qualities, come on!
I know I can't be the only one that refuses to play RTS games until they come up with a decent AI for your forces? For me, the real question about the beta is what your forces do when they are
finished with their assigned task? Do they stand around waiting for another order, or do they do something intelligent?
Until RTS games have decent enough AI that when your grunt is done building that fort you assigned him to build he goes and either returns to his previous job or starts doing some other productive
job, I won't play them. I don't want to micromanage a bunch of grunts, that's my boss's job;-)
It's called shift-clicking (order queueing) and already exists (in Starcraft at least)...tell something to build, and shift-click back to minerals before he starts building. Not too tough, really.
Greed rules the minds of considerably more young college-grads than does Ethics/Principle...every man have his price, and Microsoft can always raise the dollar bar a bit higher.
And before you go preaching again about principles and love of CS/code/open source/etc, remember what the majority of people are like, and respect the power of the almighty dollar.
And for the record, I know _multiple_ CS grads who acknowledge that Microsoft is evil, produces inferior software, and should be done away with, and still WORK (or intern) for the company.
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Bah, damn people and their "neat-sounding" buzzwords.
Give it some time and not a word in the dictionary will mean anything.
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Because I'd get arrested for some of the stuff I do to my Sims if it was irl ;)
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I'm kind of curious as to whether or not the majority of the people fighting for abortions are merely those who enjoy sex and don't want to lose their "get out of pregnancy free" card.
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Allowing such "easy solutions" merely promotes such irresponsible behavior (or at least does nothing to curb it). Maybe people would learn to have a little more respect for the act of sex if they actually had to deal with the repurcussions. And no, I'm not a religious zealot, nor could I give a damn about sex out of wedlock. All I know is that from the point of conception (or at least after a day or two), there's a DAMN GOOD probability that the "small glob of goo" will become a human life, and that high probability alone is enough for me to wish it to remain so.
Honestly, is it so difficult for people to learn a little responsibility? Then again, why should they when they always have the "easy way out" to fall back on?
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That's such a stupid attempt at arguing, it sure as hell shouldn't be modded up. Nintendo releases like 80 or 90% cartoony or kid-targetted games, and maybe a handful of "violent" or "mature" games, and people try to use that handful of games to insist that the primary market of the Gamecube isn't kids.
Please, for the love of god just accept it.
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Since when did hyphenated words turn into two? ;P
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That they know of...
hehe
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A *real* man uses _text_ for all things. :)
HTML is merely one step from Rich Text which is one step from a Word Document
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P.S. No need to point out the irony of HTML formatting in this post :)
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From the title, I thought this was some new DoS attack. I guess I was at least slightly disappointed : Magius_AR
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(sigh) if only...
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A college?
Why does this not surprise me?
Have you seen the kind of stuff they serve to you in college cafes?
Yuck!
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Greed rules the minds of considerably more young college-grads than does Ethics/Principle...every man have his price, and Microsoft can always raise the dollar bar a bit higher.
And before you go preaching again about principles and love of CS/code/open source/etc, remember what the majority of people are like, and respect the power of the almighty dollar.
And for the record, I know _multiple_ CS grads who acknowledge that Microsoft is evil, produces inferior software, and should be done away with, and still WORK (or intern) for the company.
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Sim Golf already exists :)
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What ignorance, if he had won the damn election he'd be IN OFFICE. He lost. So stop your crying and deal.
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